On 10/7/06, Constantine Evans<div> <<a href="mailto:constantine@evanslabs.org">constantine@evanslabs.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> t u wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing to attract a little bit of attention to this spec: > <a href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/winmodem-support">https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/winmodem-support </a> which asks > for winmodem support out-of-the-box. Recently, a user proposed a > dialogue popup which would give some feedback to user upon installation > regarding the user specific winmodem hardware. This seems easy enough > for Edgy + 1? What do you think? > > Is anyone interested in this? > > Thanks > > Ps. I've got no coding knowledge at all... We can't support most winmodems out of the box, because there are no free drivers, and companies like Conexant refuse to release specs under reasonable terms. Having a modem detection script during installation that explains the issue when an appropriate modem is detected would be nice. Constantine Evans </blockquote></div> I hope there will be a standards for hardware, the current situation of proprietary drivers is like in the past where there's proprietary vendors for every network, but then, OSI layers was formed.